The Power of Perspective

How do you shape your reality?

Bathed in Light, Drenched in Shadow

How much can your perception of the world around you, shape your reality? What is the focal point of this photograph? Is it the angel bathed in light, washing out her detail? Or is it the woman, pleading in the shadows, in all depth of detail?

Contradictions, like light in darkness, happiness in sadness, loss in abundance, grief in love, suffocate society relentlessly. Despite the inevitability of contradiction, it is completely uncomfortable, and humans avoid looking at it for too long, at all costs.

Alone in a Café

Most humans agree that too much of a single perspective is something to avoid. If you remain too optimistic, you leave yourself open to being taken advantage of, or being disappointed. But if you shroud yourself in guarded pessimism, you leave yourself in isolation, depriving yourself of connection, ranges of emotion, and sometimes, even sensation itself.

At Home in a Café

Even in the smallest moments of our everyday lives, the lens through which we decide to view our situation, colors and contours the edges of our reality around us in real time. Sometimes we aren't even aware of the subconscious powers at work, leading us to certain conclusions about how the world works. Which of these images is correct? What decides that context? What seems meaningful visually? What seems meaningful auditorily? What biases do we have to contend with? Where do they come from? Do we have control over them?

Colors of the Audience

What perspectives do we ignore, or choose not to see? Those that contradict our own the most. Those that reveal to us we do not know all that we think we do.

Greyscale of the Performer

When we dare to stare into the world of what we do not see, we invite ourselves to question the colors of our reality. What is over-saturated? What information is missing?

The Ignored Talent

Are some perspectives less worthy of space than others? What criterion is to be used to decide? How will you justify what you willfully ignore?

When have we exhausted our questions?

Observing His Kingdom

Awaiting the Storm

Is the internal reality to which we ascribe the closest thing to the truth we will ever see? Does examining our inner contradiction only leave us vulnerable to indecision? Existentialism? Anxiety?

Or is the juxaposition of color and grey, as uncomfortable as it can be, the ultimate truth?

Color Through The Noise

As we ebb and flow through our capacity for change, and lean into contradiction, we can move past the discomfort of extremes colliding. And excavate the edges of possibilty, widen the color palette of our reality. True harmony of light and darkness may not ever be found. But there is peace which can be found in that which we cannot control. And finding that peace is a choice we can control. Through the power of perspective.